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Ilocano Cuisine:

Bagnet, Pinakbet and Dinengdeng

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Bagnet is a deep fried pork dish submerged in boiling oil several times until it becomes crispy all over.  It’s served with a dipping sauce made of fish bagoong, tomatoes and red onions, or a dipping sauce of soy sauce, vinegar and chili.

Pinakbet or Pakbet is a classic Ilocano vegetable dish stewed in fish bagoong. Native vegetables, like okra, string beans and camote are typically used. 

 

Dinengdeng an Ilocano people of the Philippines, similar to pinakbet. It is classified as a bagoong soup based dish. Unlike pinakbet, dinengdeng contains fewer vegetables and contains more bagoong soup base.

The dish contains the following vegetables: jute leaves, the pods and leaves of the horseradish tree, the leaves and fruits of bitter melon, the calabaza squash and blossoms, alakon blossoms, amaranth leaves, sweet potato tubers and leaves, kabatiti gourd, string beans and shoots, talinum, chayote squash and shoots, chili peppers, banana blossoms, corn, West-Indian pea blossoms, tabungaw gourd, winter melon, eggplant, okra, winged bean, parda beans, lima beans, various mushrooms like oyster mushrooms, whole taro, cassava tubers, purple yams, and wild potatoes.

Planning to visit a place on North? Don't missed the chance to have a taste of their own kind of vegetable dish!